ヨシキリ科yoshi-kiri ka

General

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Originally, the collective Thai name for warblers and the other smallest insect-eating native birds was the onomatopoetic term นกกระจิบnók krà-cìp('krà-cìp bird'). Today นกกระจิบnók krà-cìp is ornithologically restricted to tailorbirds and prinias in the family Cisticolidae.

Current warbler names were largely coined by a Thai ornithologist and covered several large groups within the Sylviidae.

The Acrocephalidae are all named นกพงnók pʰoŋ'thicket-bird'. Some species are differentiated as นกพงใหญnók pʰoŋ yày'large thicket-bird' and others as นกพงนาnók pʰoŋ-naa'paddyfield thicket-warbler', but this does not correspond to meaningful taxonomic divisions.

The family name used here is based on a proposal by (23) that วงศ์นกพงwoŋ nók pʰoŋ'thicketbird family', covering Phragmaticola (Arundinax) and Acrocephalus, should be used for the Acrocephalidae as a separate family.

セッカsekka is used in Japanese for several small warbling birds in the Cisticolidae, Locustellidae, and Phylloscopidae. The etymology is unknown. It is written with the ateji雪加 (literally 'snow-add') or 雪下 (literally 'snow-below'), characters assigned on the basis of sound only with little or no relation to etymology or meaning.

ไพลpʰlay (Zingiber cassumunar, Zingiber montanum, or Zingiber purpureum) is a plant in the ginger family (Zingiberidae) widely used in traditional Thai medicine. Extracts typically have a greenish yellow to brown colour, and the name is used here as a colour word equivalent to English 'olivaceous'.

นาคnâak 'naga', from Sanskrit and Pali nāgá, is the name of a deity or kind of being taking the form of a huge snake, sometimes with multiple heads. Here the graduated tail feathers of Megaluris palustris suggest the traditional representation of the heads of a multiheaded naga.

Check-list of Thai Birds Round, Philip D., Bird Conservation Society of Thailand, Bangkok 2008. Draft version downloaded from the site of the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand in 2009 but no longer posted there, an expanded update of the species included in Lekagul & Round 1991